Millican v. McNeill
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals lor the Second District, in an appeal from Erath County. McNeill and others sued Millican and others and recovered. Defendants appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The defendants in error as heirs of John M. Stephen brought' this suit to recover of the plaintiffs in error an undivided one-sixth interest in a lot in the toAvn of Stephensville, admitting in their petition that the defendants were the owners of the other five-sixths.
The chief defense was that of limitation, and the question as to its sufficiency depends upon the following facts. John M. Stephen, who owned the lot in controversy, died in 1863, leaving two children, one of whom? was the wife of W. W. McNeill. McNeill became the administrator of Stephen’s estate and was acting as such as late…
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